LOU GEHRIG BASEBALL AUTOGRAPH OPINIONS

Hi Y'all. Ive got a Lou Gehrig Baseball that Id like to submit to psa, but I have a nagging feeling about it and that is that it looks like it was signed with a ballpoint pen and I know that the ballpoint pen wasnt produced until 1945 (gehrig died in 1941). So i was wondering if I could get opinions from you good folks on whether you think this gehrig autograph could have been penned with a Fountain Pen?

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I'd like to take Sherman and Peabody's or Brian and Stewie's Wayback Machine to ask Lou why he misspelled his last name. I can interpret it only two ways. Either Gehig or Gehrg (with the 'i' folded into the 'g', which I've never before seen). There's a missing spike in there.

Actually, my question had nothing to do with the authenticity of the autograph, since I know its realdue to 2 facts.PSA-SIMILAR1.jpg#1 I have an loa from JSA#2 As you can see in the attached image, psa has autheda similar signature to my ball AND they have rendereda Likely genuine on their quick opinion.

MY ONLY QUESTION posed was whether it is possible that thisGehrig signature was penned with a Fountain pen.

Needless to say, I've never seen that color/texture thread on a 78+ year old ball. (Unless the color balance is off).

Also, no perceptible 'u'. The 'o' arcs right out, without coming back to the baseline for the 'u', and then up and into the loop for the "G" without any perceptible 'u' being formed, again, not typical for Gehrig.

It doesn't look stamped, so my feeling is that it's a forgery on a "not quite old enough" baseball.

The orientation is off, so they're not being, or have been, the byproduct of mass-production (inked prior to assembly). Without much deviation other than tiny subtleties probably due to unique surface imperfections of each baseball; is it Autopen?

wow! Somebody obviously made a copy of my signatureonto a baseball. But yours is obviously a facsimile copy ofmy original signature, since if you look at yoursand mine side by side, you can see where your copydoes not have the ink fading and "real signature" look thatmy signature has. Also, the color ink on yours clearlylooks facsimile. My is quite a different ink colorthan what is found on facsimile baseballs (such as yours)